Sexual Personae
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Sexual Personae
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1990-09-10
Sexual Personae written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-10 with Social Science categories.
In this brilliantly original book, Camille Paglia identifies some of the major patterns that have endured in western culture from ancient Egypt and Greece to the present. According to Paglia, one source of continuity is paganism, which, undefeated by Judeo-Christianity, continues to flourish in art, eroticism, astrology, and pop culture. Others, she says, are androgyny, sadism, and the aggressive western eye, which has created our art and cinema. Paglia follows these and other themes from Nefertiti and the Venus of Willendorf to Apollo and Dionysus, from Botticelli and Michaelangelo to Shakespeare and Blake and finally to Emily Dickinson, who, along with other major nineteenth-century authors, becomes a remarkable example of Romanticism turned into Decadence. Paglia offers provocative views of literature, art history, psychology, and religion. She focuses, for example, on the amorality, voyeurism, and pornography in great art that have been ignored or glossed over by most critics. She discusses sex and nature as brutal daemonic forces, and she criticizes feminists for sentimentality or wishful thinking about the causes of rape, violence, and poor relations between the sexes. She stressed the biologic basis of sex differences and sees the mother as an overwhelming force who condemns men to lifelong sexual anxiety, from which they escape through rationalism and physical achievement. She examines the culture and style of modern male homosexuals. She demonstrates how much of western life, art, and thought is ruled by personality, which she traces through recurrent types or personae such as the female vampire (Medusa, Lauren Bacall); the pythoness (the Dephic oracle, Gracie Allen); the beautiful boy (Hadrian's Antinous, Dorian Gray); the epicene man of beauty (Lord Byron, Elvis Presley); and the male heroine (Baudelaire, Woody Allen). Her book will stimulate and awe readers everywhere.
Sexual Personae
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1990-09-10
Sexual Personae written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-09-10 with History categories.
From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs.
Sexual Personae
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Sexual Personae written by Camille Paglia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Decadence in art categories.
Provocations
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2018-10-09
Provocations written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-09 with Social Science categories.
One of the Best Books of the Year: Kirkus Reviews A timely and lavishly comprehensive collection from the inimitable critical firebrand—hailed as "a fearless public intellectual and more necessary than ever” (The New York Times)—tackling sex, art, feminism, politics, and education, and covering the full span of her wide-ranging and important career. Much has changed since Camille Paglia first burst onto the scene with her groundbreaking Sexual Personae, but the laser-sharp insights of this major American thinker continue to be ahead of the curve—not only capturing the tone of the moment but also often anticipating it. Opening with a blazing manifesto of an introduction in which Paglia outlines the bedrock beliefs that inform her writing—freedom of speech, the necessity of fearless inquiry, and a deep respect for all art, both erudite and popular—Provocations gathers together a rich, varied body of work that illuminates everything from the Odyssey to the Oscars, from punk rock to presidents past and present. Whatever your political inclination or literary and artistic touchstones, Paglia’s takes are compulsively readable, thought provoking, galvanizing, and an essential part of our cultural dialogue, invariably giving voice to what most needs to be said.
Free Women Free Men
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2018-03-01
Free Women Free Men written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-01 with Literary Collections categories.
From the fiery intellectual provocateur - and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality - a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and affirms the power of men and women and what we can accomplish together.
Vamps Tramps
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-31
Vamps Tramps written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Social Science categories.
The bestselling author of Sexual Personae and Sex, Art, and American Culture is back with a fiery new collection of essays on everything from art and celebrity to gay activism, Lorena Bobbitt to Bill and Hillary. These essays have never appeared in book form, and many will be appearing in print for the first time.
Sex Art And American Culture
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-08-31
Sex Art And American Culture written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-31 with Social Science categories.
A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, and the decline of education in America.
Sex And Violence Or Nature And Art
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Sex And Violence Or Nature And Art written by Camille Paglia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Arts categories.
Glittering Images
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-10-16
Glittering Images written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-16 with Art categories.
WIth full-color illustrations throughout From the best-selling author of Sexual Personae and Break, Blow, Burn and one of our most acclaimed cultural critics, here is an enthralling journey through Western art’s defining moments, from the ancient Egyptian tomb of Queen Nefertari to George Lucas’s volcano planet duel in Revenge of the Sith. America’s premier intellectual provocateur returns to the subject that brought her fame, the great themes of Western art. Passionately argued, brilliantly written, and filled with Paglia’s trademark audacity, Glittering Images takes us on a tour through more than two dozen seminal images, some famous and some obscure or unknown—paintings, sculptures, architectural styles, performance pieces, and digital art that have defined and transformed our visual world. She combines close analysis with background information that situates each artist and image within its historical context—from the stone idols of the Cyclades to an elegant French rococo interior to Jackson Pollock’s abstract Green Silver to Renée Cox’s daring performance piece Chillin’ with Liberty. And in a stunning conclusion, she declares that the avant-garde tradition is dead and that digital pioneer George Lucas is the world’s greatest living artist. Written with energy, erudition, and wit, Glittering Images is destined to change the way we think about our high-tech visual environment.
Break Blow Burn
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Author : Camille Paglia
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Break Blow Burn written by Camille Paglia and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
America’s most provocative intellectual brings her blazing powers of analysis to the most famous poems of the Western tradition—and unearths some previously obscure verses worthy of a place in our canon. Combining close reading with a panoramic breadth of learning, Camille Paglia sharpens our understanding of poems we thought we knew, from Shakespeare to Dickinson to Plath, and makes a case for including in the canon works by Paul Blackburn, Wanda Coleman, Chuck Wachtel, Rochelle Kraut—and even Joni Mitchell. Daring, riveting, and beautifully written, Break, Blow, Burn is a modern classic that excites even seasoned poetry lovers—and continues to create generations of new ones.